Unemployment & Downsizing

Rising Unemployment Taxes Could Hinder Hiring

Businesses Face Rising Unemployment Insurance Taxes As Job Market Struggles To Recover (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - It's forcing higher state taxes on companies to pay for unemployment insurance claims. Chuck Ferrar, who owns a...

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Overworked and underemployed: the Australian ‘recovery’

On November 12, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released labour force figures for October that showed unemployment had increased by 11,100 to 690,000 people. At the same time, monthly aggregate hours worked fell by...

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25 Reasons We Will Not Have a Depression

25 Reasons We Will Not Have a Depression Kimball Corson November 20, 2009 One particularly vitriolic reader of my last article on The Distorted Shape of the Recovering Economy seemed to think I was predicting a doomsday...

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Unemployment Cushion Created By More Women in the Workforce

The cushion has largely been created by the entry of more women into the workforce Unemployment has hit double digits in the U.S., and in some areas of the industrial Midwest, it is approaching 16%. Joblessness in many parts of...

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Returning to College as an Adult: Here Are Some Tips

OMG... I'm Really Doing This! According to the US Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the US is currently 10.2%. This is the highest unemployment the United States has experienced since 1983....

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How is that $787 Billion Obama Stimulus Plan Looking Now to Create Jobs & Lower Unemployment …...

How is that “hope and change” looking now on the Obama job creation front? Hey Obama Administration, It’s about the jobs, stupid … California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida registered record rates of unemployment in...

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USP to lay off staff

Shalveen Chand Monday, November 23, 2009 TWENTY-eight University of the South Pacific staff will lose their jobs with the USP's decision to outsource dining hall functions. The USP Council has decided to lay off staff by mid...

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Two smart guys trying to figure it all out

LOS ANGELES — The two looked over the precipice and gasped at the steepness of the drop. They looked down at a desert of dashed hopes and old skeletons, scraping the bottom of the canyon. Yes, this is where a failed U.S.-China...

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IT cos voice concern over proposed US law on hiring

New Delhi, Nov. 22 Two US senators have introduced a legislation seeking to prohibit companies that lay off large number of American workers, from subsequently hiring temporary workers (such as tech professionals) from outside...

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Loss of Busch Gardens work triggers big landscape company layoff

TAMPA — One Source Landscape & Golf Services will lay off 253 employees on Dec. 31 after Busch Gardens begins doing its own landscaping and grounds work at the beginning of the new year, officials with both firms said Thursday....

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